Operation Honor Guard helps fund Honor Guard details in southern and central Illinois. On average there are 7 to 8 Honor Guard members at each military funeral. It takes more than $800 to ...

German Air Force 62nd Wing Commander Col. Marcus Knoll said he was visiting Peoria for the first time, and enjoyed the warm ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — The Illinois National Guard will send 110 soldiers and 30 airmen to help with security at the presidential inauguration next week in Washington, D.C. Airmen with the ...

WARSAW, Poland - About 75 U.S. and Polish Armed Forces personnel strengthened NATO interoperability and defense modernization ...

Illinois Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion (RRB) commander, Lt. Col. Lance Frail, puts the tag line “love the process and you will succeed!” at the ...

The 116 New York Army National Guard soldiers, who serve on eight regional Honor Guard detachments, conducted 6,859 military funeral honors across the state. Eighty New York Air Guard airmen ...

When Illinois Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Quentin Corrington was about 3 years old, his father died of an accidental ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill (WREX) – The Illinois National Guard is working on reviewing and adjusting its social media content to comply with President Trump’s executive orders. In a social media post ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – February 28 marked the 34th anniversary of the end of Desert Storm. Desert Storm was known as the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois National Guard members departed from Peoria Thursday to play a role in the unprecedented security perimeter being placed around the Capitol Mall. EDITORS NOTE ...

LITCHFIELD, Ill. — More than 130 members of Illinois National Guard are headed overseas and will be spread out between seven different countries. Before they left, the heroes were sent off by ...

The Illinois National Guard is set to deploy about 140 members to Washington D.C. ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration on Monday. The force will include 100 military ...